Desperation and inability seem to be themes in this song.
The song has a remarkable feeling and sound.
Perhaps it's about the inevitability of being contained by the nature that surrounds us and that we are. Our dependency on nature and simple resources and necessities given by the earth is inescapable. We can make all kinds of things, we can create capital, we can create cures and invent new things and develop new technologies but the things we develop in our world don't matter if they can't be sustained and we can't be sustained by the planet. Our world is not outside of the planet.
It might have nothing to do with a statement or expression so big or with connotations so immense. It could absolutely be about feeling. About ability and freedom;
" We've been beaten, we're dying, let us congregate
I've never seen rain, my spittle cannot fly
Dad can't keep taking care of business, taking care of business..."
"my spittle cannot fly"
There is not enough moisture in the surrounding atmosphere to allow the production of saliva...that is a metaphor for extreme lack of feeling free or able, oppression by one's surroundings. It could also be a social-economic context. Whether in an emotional or personal reality context or a more societal, planetary context or even a socioeconomic context (I'm rather doubting the last one), it's about being utterly bound.
Desperation and inability seem to be themes in this song. The song has a remarkable feeling and sound. Perhaps it's about the inevitability of being contained by the nature that surrounds us and that we are. Our dependency on nature and simple resources and necessities given by the earth is inescapable. We can make all kinds of things, we can create capital, we can create cures and invent new things and develop new technologies but the things we develop in our world don't matter if they can't be sustained and we can't be sustained by the planet. Our world is not outside of the planet. It might have nothing to do with a statement or expression so big or with connotations so immense. It could absolutely be about feeling. About ability and freedom; " We've been beaten, we're dying, let us congregate I've never seen rain, my spittle cannot fly Dad can't keep taking care of business, taking care of business..."
"my spittle cannot fly" There is not enough moisture in the surrounding atmosphere to allow the production of saliva...that is a metaphor for extreme lack of feeling free or able, oppression by one's surroundings. It could also be a social-economic context. Whether in an emotional or personal reality context or a more societal, planetary context or even a socioeconomic context (I'm rather doubting the last one), it's about being utterly bound.